Lost Cities (1999)

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Designer	Reiner Knizia
Artist	Anke Pohl Thilo Rick Claus Stephan Franz Vohwinkel
Publisher	999 Games Competo / Marektoy Devir Filosofia Édition Galakta Kaissa Chess & Games Korea Boardgames Kosmos Laser plus Midgaard Games Piatnik PLAYHOUSE Rio Grande Games Stupor Mundi Swan Panasia Co., Ltd. Tilsit Zvezda Show More »
Year Published	1999
# of Players	2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (161 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	8 and up (56 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (85 voters) [poll]
Honors	1999 Fairplay À la carte Winner 1999 Meeples' Choice Award 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players 2000 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players
Subdomain	Family Games (135 voters) [vote]
Category	Card Game Exploration
Mechanic	Card Drafting Hand Management Set Collection
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Family	Kosmos two-player series Lost Cities
Primary Name	Lost Cities
Alternate Names	Les Cités Perdues Le Città Perdute Elveszett Városok Exploradores Kadonneet Kaupungit Zaginione Miasta Χαμένες Πολιτείες Χαμένες Πολιτείες Затерянные города 失落的城市 로스트 시티 (잃어버린 도시)
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In Lost Cities, a card game from the Kosmos two-player series, the object is to mount profitable expeditions to one or more of the five different lost cities. Card play is straightforward, with a few agonizing moments sprinkled through what is mostly a fast-moving game. If you start a given expedition, you'd better make some progress in it, or it'll score you negative points. If you can make a lot of progress, you'll score quite well. After three rounds, the highest total score takes the day.

Rules are included for a four-player team game that requires two copies to play.

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Awards

1999: Meeples' Choice Award

1999: A la carte 4th Place, Fairplay Magazine prize for card games

2000: International Gamers Award winner

2006: "Juego del año en España 2006" http://www.premiojda.es winner.

2007: Major Fun Award Winner.

2008: BoardGamer.ru Recommendation.

Lost Cities is part of the Kosmos two-player series.

Online Play

Lost Cities Solo variant on Facebook (Single player, Facebook) Link Here
www.gourmetgaming.com (real-time, pay to play)
YourturnMyturn (turn-based or with AI)
Xbox LIVE Arcade (real-time, has AI, 800 Microsoft Points)
http://www.brettspielnetz.de (turnbased, German) direct link
Jijbent.nl (turnbased or with AI, Dutch)

Lost Cities Microbadges

Designer Reiner Knizia Microbadges: (Buy One)

Contents:

1 Game Board
60 Cards:
- 45 Expedition Cards (numbered 2 through 10 for five destinations)
- 15 Investment Cards (3 for each of the five destinations)
1 Rule Booklet

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Lost Cities

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German fourth edition

Publisher: Kosmos

Artist: Claus Stephan, Franz Vohwinkel

Year: 2012

Product Code: 69182

Size: 8.07 x 8.07 x 1.97 inches

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Release Date: Feb 2012

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Playhouse edition

Publisher: PLAYHOUSE

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Year: 2011

Size: Square 2-player (e.g. Lost Cities)

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German third edition (tin box)

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Year: 2010

Product Code: Art. 69113

Size: 8.08 x 8.08 x 2.08 inches

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Publisher: Swan Panasia Co., Ltd.

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Year: 2010

Size: 8.00 x 8.00 x 2.00 inches

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Italian second edition

Publisher: Stupor Mundi

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Year: 2007

Size: Square 2-player (e.g. Lost Cities)

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A re-make with Pokemon instead. Might make it more interesting for Kids and others. Cards are sized to be used as paste ups. Should fit most standard cards. Playing cards and CCG cards will do. Eg. Mtg, wwe raw deal etc. Hope you guys like it.

dragondrive

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Lost Cities Counter / Contador

Android (2.2+) app which would help you counting the values of your deliveries. It's translated in english and spanish. --------------------------------------- Aplicación en android (2.2+) para contar la puntuación de tus expediciones Screenshots (spanish): [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43918731/lost-cities.apk.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43918731/lost-cities.window.apk.png[/IMG]

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Lost Cities Scoresheet.

Laminate and use a Dry or Wet Wipe Marker to track scores.

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Łatwe automatyczne zliczanie punktów w Excelu

Arkusz ten automatycznie zlicza punkty uwzględniając wszelkie premie. Dostosowany do 3 rund, ale można w prosty sposób go rozbudować.

Omzigus

2011-05-02

Easy automatic scoring in Excel spreadsheets

With this files you can count points in very simple and fast way. For more informations read: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/648274/easy-lost-cities-scoring-in-excel-files

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Battleline & Lost Cities

I upgraded the Pub version with images from each content and added cards so you can play Battle line with the same deck. Enjoy print in 59mm by 90mm card sleeves

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Lost Cities - Regras em Português (atualizadas e corrigidas)

Regras em Português do jogo Lost Cities. Baseado no arquivo LCpt.rtf, com clarificações de partes confusas e acrescentadas as regras oficiais para 4 jogadores. Contém o arquivo fonte do OpenOffice e uma versão PDF.

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2011-01-27

Lost cities simple color score sheet

After hundreds of plays, this is the format we like best for keeping score. It could be useful for some others. Cheers. (requires a color printer though) (4 complete games per page) (the star/explosion shape is for the grand total)

rambaldo

2010-08-12

Hi-score List (PDF)

Hi-score list for gluing inside game lid. PDF-format. Picture here: http://boardgamegeek.com/image/684219/lost-cities

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Num Ratings:	15393
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Review by Kapiti Board Gamers	http://kapitiboardgamers.wordpress.com/reviews/los...	2012-05-15
Vin d'jeu: french review	http://www.vindjeu.eu/2012/03/03/les-cites-perdues...	2012-03-03
Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=2233&zoekcr...	2011-12-28
French rules	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/7874.pdf	2011-12-26
Spanish Review - The Magic Tutor	http://www.themagictutor.com/index.php?option=com_...	2011-10-14
German review - spieletest.at	http://www.spieletest.at/spiel.php?ID=685	2011-08-20
German review - Hall9000	http://www.hall9000.de/html/spiel/lost_cities	2011-08-20
German review - FAIRspielt	http://www.fairspielt.de/Spiele/lostcities.php	2011-08-20
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